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THE SECOND EPISTLE OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO THE<br/>
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CHAPTER 2
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Saints should love and forgive one another—They always triumph in Christ.
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But</span> I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.
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For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me?
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And I wrote this same unto you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having <sup>a</sup><a href="2_cor/2/3a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Cor. 8: 22.">confidence</a> in you all, that my joy is <i>the joy</i> of you all.
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For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.
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But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part: that I may not overcharge you all.
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Sufficient to such a man <i>is</i> this punishment, which <i>was inflicted</i> of many.
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So that contrariwise ye <i>ought</i> rather to <sup>a</sup><a href="2_cor/2/7a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Forgiveness.">forgive</a> <i>him,</i> and comfort <i>him,</i> lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.
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Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm <i>your</i> love toward him.
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For to this end also did I <sup>a</sup><a href="2_cor/2/9a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Scriptures, Writing.">write</a>, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye be <sup>b</sup><a href="2_cor/2/9b" mark="b" type="A" title="2 Cor. 7: 15.">obedient</a> in all things.
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To whom ye forgive any thing, I <i>forgive</i> also: for if I forgave any thing, to whom I forgave <i>it,</i> for your sakes <i>forgave I it</i> in the <sup>a</sup><a href="2_cor/2/10a" mark="a" type="P" title="GR presence.">person</a> of Christ;
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Lest <sup>a</sup><a href="2_cor/2/11a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Pet. 2: 20 (20-22).">Satan</a> should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.
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Furthermore, when I came to Troas to <i>preach</i> Christ’s gospel, and a <sup>a</sup><a href="2_cor/2/12a" mark="a" type="A" title="Acts 14: 27; Acts 16: 9.">door</a> was opened unto me of the Lord,
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I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother: but taking my leave of them, I went from thence into Macedonia.
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Now thanks <i>be</i> unto God, which always causeth us to <sup>a</sup><a href="2_cor/2/14a" mark="a" type="A" title="Rom. 8: 37.">triumph</a> in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.
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For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish:
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To the one <i>we are</i> the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life.  And who <i>is</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="2_cor/2/16a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Cor. 3: 5 (5-6).">sufficient</a> for these things?
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For we are not as many, which <sup>a</sup><a href="2_cor/2/17a" mark="a" type="C" title="2 Cor. 4: 2; TG Apostasy of the Early Christian Church.">corrupt</a> the <sup>b</sup><a href="2_cor/2/17b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Scriptures, Preservation.">word</a> of God: but as of <sup>c</sup><a href="2_cor/2/17c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Sincerity.">sincerity</a>, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.
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